The story he tells—drawing on new archeological findings, a fresh reading of eighteenth-century visitors’ accounts, and a ...
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The best books of spring 2026

From a tradwife time-travel thriller to Emma Straub’s latest romp onboard a boy band–themed cruise ship to a revenge plot led by an (already headless) Anne Boyer, these 22 unmissable reads will remind ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I love that literary fiction so often resists easy categorization. I love that this “genre” is not, ...
‘Tis the season for reflecting on a well-read year. So, after all that reading, which books are we still thinking about now? The truth is, the best book of the year is deeply personal to every reader.
The best known book by Gissing, an unfairly neglected figure, was also one of the first novels to explore life at the dog-end of Victorian literary culture. In doing so, it acknowledged the emergence ...